linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched: avoid scale real weight down to zero

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Message-ID: <bb14528b-08c3-c4c0-5bcf-4bec1d75227a@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Thu, 5 Mar 2020 10:57:03 +0800
From:   王贇 <yun.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        "open list:SCHEDULER" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: avoid scale real weight down to zero

During our testing, we found a case that shares no longer
working correctly, the cgroup topology is like:

  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/A		(shares=102400)
  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/A/B	(shares=2)
  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/A/B/C	(shares=1024)

  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/D		(shares=1024)
  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/D/E	(shares=1024)
  /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/D/E/F	(shares=1024)

The same benchmark is running in group C & F, no other tasks are
running, the benchmark is capable to consumed all the CPUs.

We suppose the group C will win more CPU resources since it could
enjoy all the shares of group A, but it's F who wins much more.

The reason is because we have group B with shares as 2, since
A->cfs_rq.load.weight == B->se.load.weight == B->shares/nr_cpus,
so A->cfs_rq.load.weight become very small.

And in calc_group_shares() we calculate shares as:

  load = max(scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight), cfs_rq->avg.load_avg);
  shares = (tg_shares * load) / tg_weight;

Since the 'cfs_rq->load.weight' is too small, the load become 0
after scale down, although 'tg_shares' is 102400, shares of the se
which stand for group A on root cfs_rq become 2.

While the se of D on root cfs_rq is far more bigger than 2, so it
wins the battle.

Thus when scale_load_down() scale real weight down to 0, it's no
longer telling the real story, the caller will have the wrong
information and the calculation will be buggy.

This patch add check in scale_load_down(), so the real weight will
be >= MIN_SHARES after scale, after applied the group C wins as
expected.

Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
---
 kernel/sched/sched.h | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 2a0caf394dd4..75c283f22256 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -118,7 +118,13 @@ extern long calc_load_fold_active(struct rq *this_rq, long adjust);
 #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 # define NICE_0_LOAD_SHIFT	(SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT + SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT)
 # define scale_load(w)		((w) << SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT)
-# define scale_load_down(w)	((w) >> SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT)
+# define scale_load_down(w) \
+({ \
+	unsigned long __w = (w); \
+	if (__w) \
+		__w = max(MIN_SHARES, __w >> SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT); \
+	__w; \
+})
 #else
 # define NICE_0_LOAD_SHIFT	(SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT)
 # define scale_load(w)		(w)
-- 
2.14.4.44.g2045bb6